My Fairytale

So, you guys posting about your dreams got me thinking about mine. I'm now filled with wanderlust and I feel like even more of a hopeless romantic than I was before. So, now you all get to hear about what I truly dream about wanting in my future.

So, I'm a hopeless romantic. Always have been, always will be. I'm independent and I can take care of myself, but I would like a man to walk by my side through life. I want someone who looks at me like Flynn looks at Rapunzel, like Ron looks at Hermione, like Peeta looks at Katniss, like Jared looks at Genevieve. I want someone to truly think that I am beautiful, and to not be afraid to tell me that. I'll admit that I've had self-esteem issues when it comes to my appearance. I've never thought of myself as beautiful or anything like that, and I know that I shouldn't need a man to tell me that I am in order to feel that way, but it would be nice to hear it every from one every once in a while. I want someone who will hug me and won't judge me when I get emotional over fictional characters. I want someone who I'm not afraid to cry in front of. I want someone whose eyes light up when they talk about something they are passionate about. Someone who will stay up late to talk about silly things one minute, and then deep, thought-provoking topics the next. Someone who can't wait until the next time he gets to see me. A man who believes in random, cute, romantic gestures, such as bringing me flowers or sending me cute texts throughout the day. I want someone to describe me like Augustus describes Hazel. Someone who likes to say bad puns just to make me laugh. Someone who doesn't mind my insanity, who will still want to be around me when I'm an emotional, anxiety-filled mess. Someone who will just sit quietly and read with me, not worrying about filling the silence. A person that will just listen to music with me and sing along at the top of their lungs without caring if they are totally off-key.

I want to go on an adventure, and I want to go on one with you ladies. In earlier posts when you guys were talking about going on a trip somewhere in a few years, I got super excited when you brought it up, because this is something that I've always wanted to do. I just love picturing all of us on an airplane, barely able to contain our excitement of traveling somewhere new and mysterious. I want to do cheesy touristy things with you all. I want to see the Eiffel Tower at night and point out cute French boys with you all. I want to go to London and scream "the British are coming!" just for the hell of it. I want to drink tea in England. I want to see Ireland and eat at an Irish pub. I want to ride on a gondala in Italy. (I realize that this is sounding a lot like Rachel's post, sorry about that. I'll stop.)

I should probably get back to studying... so, I guess I'll talk to you all later.

Love,
Sara

Rude Sara Rubeck

Excuse you Sara Suzanne Rubeck, no one told you that you could go waltzing around here looking so fine. How bout you take your sexy self somewhere else cause no one else can handle it. Dayum girl, why you gotta be so triflin?

Here's a history lesson for ya

So Alex's post gave me the idea to do my own on a game I've been talking about: Dynasty Warriors. It currently has 8 games in the series and I started playing at number 3 when I was in 3rd grade.

So I'll tell you the story of the Three Kingdoms and Jin.

Currently in number 7 which is what I've been playing (I'm too broke to buy 8) these are the character available to play

I'm not going to tell you who all these people are or else we'd be here forever.

So there's a lot that happens in the beginning, but I'm going to focus on the key events.

In the beginning there was peace until this man

Dong Zhou became the tyrant and took over the capital and basically caused chaos.
He had a bodyguard

 

Lu Bu. Possibly the most feared, strongest man in the story. He killed his adopted father to join Dong Zhou.

A man named Wang Yun grew tired of Dong Zhou's tyranny over the land so he sent his daughter Diao Chan to put a wedge in between Lu Bu and Dong Zhou.

Both Lu Bu and Dong Zhou fell in love with her and Diao Chan played both of them. In the end, Lu Bu killed Dong Zhou and won Diao Chan over.

After that, the country needed a new ruler but there wasn't one clear ruler.

To the east there was Wu.

I started off playing for Wu when I was little and I played for Wu all the time because I loved them so much. Up until number 7 but more on that later.

These are all the people from Wu, but

These are the ones who are really important at this point.

So the man in the middle, Sun Jian, during the fight against Dong Zhou, stole the Imperial Seal and ran east. The Imperial Seal was this thing that the beholder was supposed to have all Imperial power in the land. Basically it was important. Anyway, he started creating the kingdom of Wu. Whenever an enemy asked him about the Seal, he swore that he should die by sword or arrow if he was concealing it. Well, needless to say, Sun Jian was shot with an arrow and died. The man on the left, Sun Ce, took charge of the Wu forces. But he also didn't make it too long before he was shot down. Finally, the man on the right, Sun Quan, laid the foundations for the Wu kingdom and took the majority of the land East.

Now for my favorite characters of Wu (there's going to be more of them than any other kingdom probably because I'm more attached to them).

This is Zhou Yu. He's not really in my favorites anymore but I wanted to include him because he was either the first or second person I ever played in the whole series. He was the strategist for Wu and best friend of Sun Ce.

This is Sun Ce's wife, Da Qiao. In the third game I always loved to play as her... I don't really have much to say about her...

This is her sister Xiao Qiao and wife of Zhou Yu. She's about the same as the last but I like her attitude better.

This is Sun Shang Xiang. I felt like I should include her because she is the daughter of Sun Jian and the sister to Sun Ce and Sun Quan. She fell in love with the leader of Shu, Liu Bei, and switched from Wu to marry him.

And this guy...oh man I love this guy. He is my absolute favorite! I don't know why I liked him so much when I was little but it's just carried over throughout the years and I still love him. After Zhou Yu died, this guy, Lu Xun, succeeded him as Wu's strategist. He was brilliant. He led Wu to many victories and helped to defeat Guan Yu, Shu's strongest warrior. 'Nuff said.

So the second kingdom that formed was Wei in the North.

Here's all the characters for Wei

And here's the ones we care about

To be honest, I hate Wei. I really do. They were a bunch of power hungry people and I could really care less for them. I don't even know what to tell you about them. Their leader Cao Cao

pretty much took over the land from what I understand. I don't know. They don't really give too much detail about him in the game and I haven't really gotten this far in the book. Cao Cao was basically the main ruler who set the foundation for Wei. He died at an old age and his son Cao Pi took control. It wasn't long after that that the kingdom of Jin took control but more on them later.

Highlights I guess

This is Xiahou Dun. I only put him here because I thought it was interesting that when he was shot in the eye with an arrow, he took the arrow out with the eye on it and ate the eye because he felt that his eye belonged to him and it should be with him... disturbing? Haha too bad you already read it.

Zhen Ji. When I was talking about Zhou Yu I said that he might have been the first person I ever played as. Well it's between him and this lady. She's the only person from Wei I'll play willingly.

Ok so the last of the Three Kingdoms is Shu. They were the last kingdom to be formed.

I actually like all of these people but here's who's important

Before I played the 7th game, I could have cared less for Shu, but now they're my favorite.

So basically, Shu started with these three men. The leader is Liu Bei, in the middle. His sworn brothers are Zhang Fei (left) and Guan Yu (right). By sworn brothers I mean that they're not related but they did some special ritual in a peach garden and now they are the equivalent of brothers... if that makes sense. They swore to die on the same day of the same year. After Wu and Wei worked together, they killed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei within days of each other, but Liu Bei would live another year before he joined his brothers. Anyway, Liu Bei got his late start because he didn't want to be considered a ruler. He was to kind to take those titles away from others. I don't know what made him change his mind but he finally controlled the land in the West. Liu Bei wanted a land of benevolence. He wanted what was best for the people. He wasn't some power hungry man. And for that, he's become my favorite of the three who created the foundation of the Three Kingdoms.

Now for the people

This is Zhoa Yun. His is basically the poster boy for the Dynasty Warriors series. He's on most of the covers for the games. At least I think so. I don't know why they picked him. He's pretty cool I guess but they had like 70 other people to choose from.

Here is Lord Zhuge Liang. He was Shu's strategist. I included him because he is believed to be the best strategist of his time (yes, better than Lu Xun). He was the one who brought forward the idea of benevolence to Liu Bei. He was succeeded by Jiang Wei who had the same beliefs as Zhuge Liang.

I absolutely adore this boy. His name is Guan Suo, one of the four or five children of Guan Yu. He's nice to everyone. When Wu and Wei attacked his father, he tried to help his father escape. At least one of his brothers, Guan Ping, was killed in attempt to hold the enemy back so Guan Yu could escape. In the end, the enemy was too many and Guan Yu threw Guan Suo into a river so he could get away and live while the enemy took their prize. Guan Suo did survive.


That's the story of the Three Kingdoms, now let's talk about their fall to one family.

This is the Kingdom of Jin. They're so small I only needed this one picture and I'll talk about all but two of these people.

Sima Yi was the founder of Jin. Jin started in the Wei region up North. Sima Yi was originally Wei and was their strategist during Cao Cao's late years. After Zhuge Liang died Sima Yi wanted to unite the land under one rule and he felt he could do this. By this time Sun Quan, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei had died along with Wu's master strategist, Lu Xun. All three kingdoms were undergoing new rule. Wei's new leader, Cao Pi, eventually died and Sima Yi took control over his new territory Jin. He didn't make himself emperor though.

I don't know much about Jin. Only what they say in the game. I have like a hundred years to go in the books, so my knowledge may be wrong in some small places. For instance, I'm not exactly sure when the name "Wei" fell and "Jin" took it's place. From now on, I'll stick to what I know.

Sima Yi started building his Jin army and fought against Shu and Wu. Jin was just starting to make a name for himself when Sima Yi died of disease.

His first born son, Sima Shi, took over Jin. They made and defended countless attacks from Shu, who was not willing to give up so easily. Shu continuously attacked the North and was always defeated. Wu made some attempts to attack Jin, but not as many as Shu. Sima Shi wasn't in charge for very long before he too fell ill and died.

The title now fell to his little brother, Sima Zhao, who was not ready to have so much resting on his shoulders. In short, he was lazy. But once he realized how much the people admired him, he stepped up and took charge. He showed mercy to his enemies and gave them the opportunity to fight for him. He too, cared about the people. After Shu had attacked Jin countless times, Shu ran low on provisions. Sima Zhao took this opportunity to attack. And just like that, the kingdom of Shu fell to Jin. What was once Wei and Shu were now Jin. Unfortunately, Sima Zhao died the year after Shu fell. I don't remember the name of the man who took charge of Jin after Sima Zhao. But it would take Wu thirty years after that to fall to Jin.

Here's the last of the people

Wang Yuanji. She was the wife of Sima Zhao. She encouraged him when the weight of the kingdom was thrust onto his shoulder. She's pretty much a badass.

This is Zhong Hui. He is one cocky son of a bitch. He has the best weapon.

Xiahou Ba. He's my favorite from Jin. I mean he's considered Jin, but after some event I can't remember, he fled from Jin and defected to Shu because he feared someone was trying to kill him.

Sun Quan of Wu, Cao Cao of Wei, and Liu Bei of Shu were the men who built the foundations of the Three Kingdoms. Almost 120 years after their creation, they all fell to the Sima clan.

And the land was finally united under one rule.

The end.

I didn't spoil the game for you, I taught you a history lesson. No really, these aren't really spoilers : /

I feel like I did this for my own enjoyment...

I need my fix

Okay, so since I'm on this huge gaming kick right now, I really need to let it all out, SO since I'm experiencing serious withdrawals over Zelda AND BECAUSE YOU GUYS SERIOUSLY NEED TO PLAY THEM I'M MAKING A POST ABOUT ZELDA. *puts oxygen mask on* OKAY, so let's start with background info:

The Legend of Zelda series (theres a junkload of them) takes place (most of the time) in the land of Hyrule. (gaah it already sounds so cool) The main character is this totally adorable kid who usually starts the games out being totally average and a little scared of things. Then something happens (i.e. his sister gets kidnapped, Zelda gets kidnapped, an annoying fairy wants him to be the "Hero of Time") and he has to learn not to be a baby and BE A MAN aww how sweet. He doesn't talk. He's more of the strong, silent type.

Main theme. It's an older one, but I lerrv it. I'm gonna be popping music in here randomly, because the series is known for its music and has some of the best music in all of gaming, hands down.

Here's Twilight Princess Link. what a hottie.

Then there's Zelda, she's the princess of Hyrule and she needs to be rescued a lot. BUT ITS TOTALLY COOL CAUSE SHES A TOTAL BAMF. She's super smart and has a bow.

I cant find a picture with her bow. But yay sword! Look how pretty her dress is.

Oh, and sometimes she disguises herself as Sheik if she's feeling frisky.

Ocarina of Time song. I could do a whole post on Ocarina of Time, it's so perfect.

Throwback. These games are so old.

So then there's Ganondorf who is the main bad guy (he usually kidnaps Zelda) and he used to scare the crap out of me.

Okay, like right here he's good.

But then he turns into crap like this and I have to pass the game over to my brother.

Link also has a horse, Epona, in some of the games. Yay! I'm not finding a picture for her. Booo! Then there's also a dragon boat guy and a giant bird, among others.

So Link has to go on this MASSIVE (like it takes forever to finish the games) journey to save Zelda and Hyrule. He goes to a bunch of really awesome temples and places.

Here's the forest temple in Ocarina of Time. YOU.DO.NOT.MESS.AROUND.IN.THE.FOREST.TEMPLE. Ask Marissa, that is the scariest place in all the games (except the trials, but we'll get there). You don't play around in there, you get in, get out.

Here's the music in there. I'm still haunted by it.

Temple of time coolest place evs

Climb in loser, we're going sailing. So much fun.

Oh yeah. Here's Twilight Princess Hyrule castle so dope.

Yay Wind Waker! He's so sassy in this one. There's that dragon boat. (shh he's in disguise)

Ocarina of Time!! Favorite Zelda game. It is amaziignngngnnddnsakskcmfkdsa 

There's the moon from Majora's Mask. MAJORA'S MASK IS THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE GAME EVER MADE IF ANYONE EVER TELLS YOU THAT YOU CAN BEAT IT THEY ARE LYING. I have never beat it. You have three days to stop this damn moon from destroying the world and lies, it is all lies you cannot win. oh my god i cant stop laughing look at the moon.

Skyward Sword so pretty. LOOK a city in the clouds. You get to jump off your bird into the world below.

What a cutie pie! There's Zelda oh my god, stop lurking. We know he has a cute butt.

Graphics hnnnng. The graphics in Skyward Sword are so amazing I love them. But don't let them trick you. I still haven't recovered from how difficult this game is. I cried so many times.

Okay, so trials. Trials. o.o No. noooooooo. I don't think I'll ever recover from these. This is one of the most stressful things I have ever done. I have to wipe sweat off my forehead and my heart starts going into overtime, no joke. I literally have to walk away from the game for a whole day when I finish one of them. You're in this spirit world and the second you step out of this circle these spirit guys come to life and start coming after you. You have no weapons and the only way to get them to stop is to find these orbs. When you grab an orb they stop for only 30 seconds, so you gotta find them all before they get you. I can't even think about it. Never again.

You gotta collect all the pieces of the Triforce to get all your power. Yeah no, this is not fun to do.

Sidekicks:

That's Navi. She's super sassy. When she tells you to do something, you better do it. Marissa's "Hey! Listen!" ringtone? That's Navi.

Midna! She's super sassy too, but we love her more.

That's Midna's true form, how gorg.

Fi. We don't talk about Fi. Fi can go die in a hole for annoying the hell out of me. I AM NOT YOUR MASTER.

These guys, oh god, they sit there all unsuspecting, then you get close to them and they let out a bloodcurdling scream and stand up and walk all thug-like toward you. Look at him just creeping. I see you.

And if you get close enough THEY LATCH ONTO YOU WHILE STILL SCREAMING AND START SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF YOU DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME AT NIGHT.

Yeah...Shadow Temple. No.

Sooo pretty.

This guy oh my god. He's so fabulously creepy, holy shit he's great.

I think we'll end on that note. These games are so amazing! I only showed like 4 of them, but I think there's 15 or so. You guys have to play them one time. We'll do a game night and Marissa and I will show them to you!

Alex 

.(and the ghost of Marissa. she participated in spirit. what's that Marissa? she said get the hell out.)